I revamped my first office chair a month or two ago, and got a lot of positive feed back. Let me just start off by saying office chairs are not exactly my favorite thing to redo, mainly because of the spray painting...However, I love the outcome, so in the end its all worth it. This is not going to be a detailed tutorial. My last post got a little more "tutorialish" than I originally wanted. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but for now, that's not really the direction I wanted to go in.
So lets get into the good stuff. I got this chair from Eric's wonderful mom. I wasn't planning on doing another office chair, but I LOVED it and wanted to make it more girly. Other than a little wear on it, the chair was in pretty good condition.
I started off by cleaning the parts of the chair I wanted to paint. Because I covered the chair, I didn't bother to take the chair a part. I tried my best to keep the paint off the seat and back rest, but honestly, I'm not planning on selling this, and it wasn't a homework assignment, so who...really...cares... Last time I did this, I took the chair apart and it was VERY hard to get the paint even. I really do not enjoy spray painting, so I just did what ever would get me through it faster...I'm trying brush painting next time. Just saying...
YAY THE PAINT IS DRY...AND WE'RE INSIDE. Okay, so when I got to this point, I took the chair apart. If you try this, I suggest you put all the screws in a zip lock bag or something, because you will be very disappointed if you have lost all your screws and can't put your chair back together. I am not a chair expert, but the chair won't work very well if you can't put it back together.
With the right side facing down, I estimated how much fabric I would need.
Then I pinned it, and drew a line to sew. My line was a little off, but I did that on purpose. I wanted to have plenty of seam allowance, and I really just wanted to see how the chair curved. These pictures are of the back rest of the chair, but the seat is done the same way. Only sew up the sides. I also made sure the top of the back rest and the front of the seat had the part of the fabric that did not need sewing, ( look at the picture above, I'm not great with words...sorry...) I did this so the most visible parts would be seamless.
I left the bottom of the back rest, and the back of the seat open. I sewed on some velcro to each side of the opening, so technically this cover is removable.
After I sewed on the velcro, I sewed on a button for decoration. I hot glued this onto the chair so it would "form" to the chair better. I did this for both sides.
Since that can be a little hard to understand, this is what I mean. I put hot glue directly under where I wanted the jewel button to hit (under the cover, on the actual chair), and pressed down. this gives the illusion of a more "custom" fit. I also put some hot glue into the crease you can see, and tucked in the fabric. This was just something I wanted to do, if you try it, this part is TOTALLY optional. This does however make it harder to remove. Not impossible, but you do have to go through this hot glue process again if you try it.
There you have it! Like I said in the beginning, this is not exactly supposed to tell you how to do this yourself. However, if you DO have any questions, as always please feel free to contact me. The reason I do not want to get into "tutorials" is because I am not a master. I am just starting out as an interior design student. I am not to the point where I feel comfortable saying, "this is exactly how you do this, and this is the right way." I'm still learning. One day, after I finish my studies, I hope to be able to give accurate and detailed tutorials. For now, I just like to document my work. I hope you enjoyed this short and sweet post. I'll see you back here next time!
Hayley
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